Fresh
Superbly conveys its themes of despair and lost opportunities.
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
2004 · 1h 46m · N/A
Documentary
Directed by
Pirjo Honkasalo
Overview
A searing examination of the unrelenting Chechen conflict, observed through the prisms of a Russian military boys academy, a war-torn town and a children's refugee camp.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
70%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Consistently moving but never quite coalesces into a strongly coherent whole.
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Fresh
An achingly beautiful look at the most tragic victims of the longtime war in Chechnya: children.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Fresh
The acrid fog of war is palpable in Pirjo Honkasalo's magnificent documentary, The 3 Rooms of Melancholia, one of the saddest films ever made.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Rotten
Honkasalo's self-consciously high-art approach seems likely, at least for American audiences, to render an already remote conflict even stranger and more exotic.
Joshua Land, Village Voice
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